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GLOBE DISCOUNT CITYSometimes incorrectly remembered as Globe Shopping City, this chain had its beginnings around the year 1960, in Houston, Texas. Bayou City-based United Mercantile, Incorporated built three Globe Discount City stores around Houston. Each encompassed 100,000 square feet and was promoted as "the largest non-membership discount house in the South".

United Mercantile, and its seven-unit Danbury junior department store division, were acquired by Chicago's Walgreen Drug in March 1962. Walgreen's quickly expanded the Globe Discount City chain into Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona. By 1966, there were thirteen Globe stores. Each included a Globe Food supermarket.

San Diego's FedMart chain purchased Globe Discount City from Walgreen's in late 1977. Stores were soon rebranded as FedMart operations.

One of the most short-lived of the many Southern California discount marts, this chain came into being, in Los Angeles, in 1960. It had completely vanished soon after the beginning of the next decade.

The newly-formed Unimart chain was acquired by the Los Angeles-based Food Giant conglomerate in May 1961. From this point, it began expanding at a rapid rate and was operating three stores in Greater Los Angeles by November of the 1961. By November 1962, there were five Los Angeles stores and two in the San Diego market.

Garfield, New Jersey-based Vornado, Incorporated, who also operated the East Coast-based Two Guys chain of discount stores, merged with Food Giant / Unimart in July 1967. There were fifteen Unimarts in Southern California by early 1969.

In March, the ten Los Angeles Unimart locations were sold to New York City-based Beck Industries. These were shuttered and remodeled. They re-opened, as Disco Fair stores, in late 1969. Two of the remaining stores were rebranded as Two Guys operations, with those in San Diego retaining the Unimart moniker until being shuttered in 1973.

Beck Industries ended up selling the Unimart / Disco Fair stores back to Vornado in September 1970. They continued to operate as Disco Fair locations until being rebranded, under the Two Guys banner, in October 1973.

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